nunnish

He wears a suit and a huge Rolex; she dons a dress of thick nunnish lace and a mask of make-up.

Lesley M. M. Blume: 15 Going On 50: How Gossip Girl is Killing Youth Culture 2008

The nunnish woman brought to mind, of all things and all people, the hip sick dopester comic—Lenny Bruce.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

The nunnish woman brought to mind, of all things and all people, the hip sick dopester comic—Lenny Bruce.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

The nunnish woman brought to mind, of all things and all people, the hip sick dopester comic—Lenny Bruce.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

I was glad you had not known of it before you started, for I thought it would be so much better for all the changes to be made while you were away, and for Sylvia to be in her mother's house, where she could get rid of her nunnish habits, and have some proper clothes made up.

The House of Martha Frank Richard Stockton 1868

-- Ed. [10] "So nunnish," a singular mode of expression, alluding to the nuns being separated from the world, and shut up by themselves.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

Poor man, I am sorry for his weakness, and that he should show that himself is so nunnish [10] in such a day as this.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

It is probably the most popular not because of our continuing cultish fascination with economists - cue the nunnish fawning RTE does over Jim Power's televisual performance "oh that man does a lovely economic forecast" - but rather because almost the entire article is dedicated to the rather spectacular rant given by Morgan Kelly.

Dublin Opinion 2009